Long job confronts painters putting a new white coat on the 230-foot stack of the Hardy Salt Company, a landmark for 41 years at 800 South Vandeventer ave. The tapered, reinforced concrete structure is the tallest stack in St. Louis it measures 16 feet 8 inches at the base and 10 feet 10 inches at the top.
"Unrecognizable heaps of rubble and empty skeletons of buildings greeted U.S. infantrymen who marched into Septsarges on the Meuse River after the town was wrested from the Germans in the First World War."
"Memorial Day Observed in England, Honors Paid to Our Dead./Memorial Day was observed in England with fitting ceremonies at all cemeteries where American soldiers and sailors are buried. These photos were made at the Brookwodd Cemetery near London, the upper showing American soldiers, Y.M.C.A.; Red Cross and K.F.C. workers decorating graves and the lower firing the last salute over the graves of the dead Americans."
"U.S. Flyers Winners in Night Battle at Fortress Monroe./Airmen are claiming a decisive victory in the "Battle in the Air" arranged by Secretary of War Weeks at Fortress Monroe, Va. day and night of March 6th. Three Martin bombers dodged range finders, evaded searchlights and successfully attacked fortress Monroe. More than 500 persons witnessed the demonstration. In the night tests, the flyers won, the shafts of light groping vainly for the motors that the listening devices revealed./This photo shows searchlights at Fortress Monroe being trained on planes."
"Transport Crook Arrives Safely./The disabled transport Crook, bearing 30 German war brides and nearly 1,000 officers and men of the American Army of Occupation on the Rhine has arrived safely in port. The ship sprung a leak while of the Newfoundland Banks and then ran into a severe storm but it crept into port distaining the aid that was sent as soon as advices of its predicament were received